Last week I had the pleasure of viewing the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York. Those vaguely familiar with her work think of polka dots, items covered in cloth phallic-shaped pieces, and her participation in the hippie culture back in 1960s New York. She unabashedly pushed the envelope of what had been done and what was considered decent, called by Carl Swanson in a recent New York magazine article an “avant-garde hippie shaman and tabloid fixture.” Funny thing is, the magazine piece is called “The Art of the Flame-Out” and at first I took it at [...]